Oil burner



May 22, 1 923. 1,455,874

- J. GILMORE OIL BURNER Filed Aug. 5, 1921 INVENTOR Joseph 6771210112 A TTORNEYS Patented ay 22, 1923.

N i III g JOSEPH GILMIO'RE, 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

OIL BURNER.

Application filed August 5, 1921. Serial No. 490,037.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH GILMORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil Burners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to oil burners, and particularly to a form of burner constructed to burn kerosene and low grade oils by preheating the same to form a gas.

The objects of the invention are to produce a simple and inexpensive form of burner which may be constructed for the most part from pieces of pipe or tube and caps, nuts, elbows, T, etc., and to be so constructed that any sediment from the oils used will not clog the burner outlet, but will be segregated by gravity and readily removed from the apparatus.

A further object is to provide a form of oil burner which will automatically heat and volatilize oils by the flame from the burner, with a baffle plate and suit-able insulation above the flame to prevent burning of the oil tube when placed in a small cavity close above the burner jet, as in any cont monly constructed cooking stove or range.

With these and other objects as further disclosed herein, the apparatus is illustrated by the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the burner.

Figure 2 is a top plan of the burner, and

Figure 3 is an end view taken on line A of Figure 1.

Like numerals on the different figures represent like parts.

1, is a metal plate or support designed to fit into any common stove for heating or cooking purposes, or elsewhere, the plate being provided with a central draft aperture, and two other holes one at each end through which is attached suitable upright tubes or pipes as 2 and 3, connected by another tube placed parallel with plate 1. The tubes 2. and 4 may be of one piece as shown in the drawing or may be assembled of stock pieces of pipe with elbows for connections.

On the lower and threaded end of part 3 is placed a T 5 with a smaller tube 6 held thereby having an upturned end and cap 7 thereon, the cap provided with small outlet or jet mouth 7. A nipple 3 as a continuance of tube 3 extends from the T through plate 1 and is held rigid by nut 8, and a removable cap 9 is placed over the lower end of the nipple, which cap is readily placed and removed in case of necessity of cleaning any sediment from the interior of the nipple, and the tube 6 is also readily re moved from the T member in event that the same should become clogged.

Suitable jam nuts 10 and 11 hold the tube 2 rigid on the plate 1, and a reducing tube 12 as a part of cap 13 is used for the purpose of connecting the burner with a feed tubing from any commonly used form of pressure oil tank or supply source.

For starting the burner it is only necessary to apply against some portion of the tubings as 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 any heating means for a few seconds, whereby the oil within becomes volatilized and escapes through the small aperture 'l" in form as gas which readily ignites from flame of a match, and thereafter the flame from the burning gas will heat the above tubing 4 and cause a continuance of the gaseous formation. In fact the heat against the tube 4 is too great when the apparatus is constructed to use in a stove or small firebox, and to regulate and reduce this heat properly a plate 14 is adjusted by bands 15 held by set screw 16 to the tube 4, the bands attached to the plate 14 by a neck member about which is held a form of in sulating material as asbestos, and the plate 14 is constructed of sufficient diameter to serve as baflie plate and spreader for the flame when contacting therewith and thus cause the flames and heat to operate against a large portion of the firebox, or interior partof the stove where placed.

I A suitable draft aperture 19 is provided beneath the cap 7 and the flames spread out from the latter as at 20 against the plate 14.

The supply of oil is regulated by any common stop cock in the line of connecting tube from the supply source.

I claim An oil-burner of the character described consisting of a substantially U-shaped pipe having legs of unequal length each of said legs externally threaded adjacent its end, a T-joint adapted to seat and be secured to the shorter leg, an L-shaped pipe carried by the lateral opening of the T-joint and extending between the legs of the first mentioned pipe and in the same plane therewith and having its short arm directed toward the base of the U; a base plate having three aligned orifices the central orifice being larger than the end ones and the latter slightly larger than the external diameterol' the'U-pipe; nuts on the threaded longer end of the U tube adapted to secure said leg to said base when said leg is passed through one of said endorifices, said nuts being 10 screwed up against opposite faces of the base; a nipple secured in theend of the Te joint and adapted to pass through the other end orifice of the base, a nut on said nipple, said nipple adapted to be secured to the base by the engagement thereof by the said T- joint and nut and a cap for closing said nipple substantially as specified. I

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JOSEPH GILMORE. 

